What is the origin of this name having been given to the said clump of trees?
They place their nest in a clump of grass, well concealed, laying usually four white eggs, with few spots of brown (.
Is usually well concealed in a clump of grass, near some small piece of water, and is only a slight hollow with very little lining of grasses.
They are a very sociable bird during the breeding season, and often several pairs will nest in the same clump of trees, usually placing their nests at low elevations.
They nest in low bushes, or on the ground in a clump of grass; four eggs are laid; white with dark brown markings, mostly about the larger end (.
They build on the ground, concealing their nest in a clump of grass or under some bush.
This is placed on the ground in a clump of grass, and is made of fine grasses; four to six eggs of a pale greenish blue color, spotted and splashed with shades of brown (.
And after taking a good look at him, Billy Woodchuck tiptoed away to a spot where he saw two long ears sticking out from behind a clump of milkweed.
The garden, a large one and highly walled in, was entered by two gates, one of which led into the back yard, the other into a corner of the lawn that was concealed from the house by a clump of trees.
It was in vain that he ran in all directions, searched every place likely to conceal the villain; not a clump of trees or ornamental shrubs remained unexamined.
In the meantime he stationed himself in a clump of trees, to which he went by a back walk in the shrubbery that was concealed from that part of the avenue.
Darkness was coming on, and he took advantage of the shelter afforded by the bank, screening himself behind every clump of bushes.
About half of the twenty miles had been told off when the trio saw a band of Indians emerge from a clump of trees half a mile away and sweep toward them.
His car he had driven off the road back of a clump of thick mesquite.
The slender gallant figure of his rider leaned forward looking, listening at every turn, and at the forks of the trail where a clump of squat mesquite and giant sahuarro made a screen, she checked the horse, and held her breath.
She halted at the door, a bundle in her hand, and surveyed the landscape, but failed to see him because he at that moment was back of a clump of towering prickly pear.
There, very near by, was the clump of jasmine, whose ravishing odor had tempted him.
After a time they struck a path approaching the plantation in the rear, and a little after, passing from behind a clump of live-oaks, they came in sight of the villa.
He thought nothing of taking a clump of dock leaves, or of flying or sailing over a thick bush of prickly gorze.
In the centre of the wood there was an open space, with a pool and a clump of gorse.
Details of placing scent set on cleared space between the trail and a clump of higher weeds or grass used as a scent post.
It was at the Willows,--so called, not because the house is surrounded by willows, but because a little clump of them hangs over the pond close by.
While the sun is still well above the horizon great flocks of mynas sweep swiftly overhead towards the dense clump of bamboo bushes in which they will spend the night.
The tree selected is usually one with rather dense foliage, and one of a clump or row, in preference to a solitary tree; nevertheless, I have seen a nest in an isolated tree.
I unyoked with despatch, then left the bullocks, and rode round, looking for a clump of mallee, which would indicate the immediate neighbourhood of the water.
Close on our left was the clump of swamp box which covered about fifty acres of the nearer portion of the selection, leaving a few scattered trees outside the fence.
I don't believe there was a stick of it within miles; but there was a clump of yarran where it should have been.
Its nest is one of the most beautiful of all nests--a finely-felted, domed structure, often suspended in a clump of mistletoe.
It is often found with them, and was common all the winter, and is common now in a clump of flowering gums outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The two hired men were almost jumping from cliff to cliff making straight for the clump of hemlock trees at the very edge of the stream, that, in its quiet way, defied the great hill above it.
Here," said the boy, pulling aside a thick clump of berry vines.
In the gathering night I found a good grazing-place a little way below the crossing, picketed him upon it and sat down beside the small clump of buck-brush round which I had fastened the end of his rope.
A little after midnight he got up silently and crept along the river bank to the clump of bushes where Sam lay soundly sleeping.
An hour later the camp was slumbering quietly in the starlight, Sam sleeping by himself under a clump of bushes on the side of the camp opposite that chosen by Jake Elliott for his resting-place.
Sam Hardwicke had thrown himself down under a clump of bushes, as I have said, a little apart from the rest of the boys.
Ralph was on the point of calling out to George for an explanation of this apparently reckless shooting, when a voice from amid a small clump of trees shouted: "Hold out your hat and I will put a bullet through the center of it.
It might be worse," said George, who was beginning to recover some of his cheerfulness as his companions lost theirs, "and we will stop at the next clump of trees.
But neither boy had eye for anything except that clump of trees where the huge animal had stood.
Suddenly an eland dashed out from a clump of bushes barely a hundred yards off, not having heard their approach.
Why, we headed east to that first clump of trees, and then north to here.
Several hours passed, and about eleven in the morning the travellers stopped under the shade of a clump of trees, so as to let the hottest part of the day pass.
The clump of trees under which the travellers had found a protecting shade had long disappeared in the distant bluish horizon, and the sun had begun sensibly to decline, when the painter perceived a horseman galloping towards him.
But all at once the larger clump jerked awkwardly and stopped.
Soon we came upon a level plain where, hard by a clump of trees, a carriage with four vigorous horses awaited us.
One clump of green branches drifted slowly up the lochlet.
When he rose it was under a clump of green branches.
None the less he was near the middle of the loch almost as soon as another clump of green branches.
As a precautionary measure we proceeded to hide the ladder in a clump of rhododendrons hard by, and had but just done so when Benjamin uttered a cry of warning and took to his heels, while the Imp and I sought shelter behind a friendly tree.
Hank walked over to a clump of grass that was laced with delicate-looking flowers.
There was another rippling movement from the clump of grass.
After another five minutes of hard climbing, they broke through to a clearing that led in one direction to another clump of trees.
Mr Clare was leaning over Clump with a hand on the pulseless heart.
With the sound of my voice came the sharp, fatal crack of the pistol, and Clump fell back--dead!
To which we all gave a cordial assent, and, having reached the house, turned in there with the prospect of having some fun with Clump and Juno before our tutors should return.
As they always did, Clumpand Juno assembled with us in the dining-room.
Before going to bed that night, I went out in the kitchen to put a pair of my shoes to dry, and foundClump and Juno, as usual in the evenings, smoking and dozing over the fire.
Well, Drake, I'll tell you if Clump finds the articles," I answered.
Among the negroes he set free were Clump and his sable partner Juno, and so attached were they to him that they entreated that he would take them with him to England.
As our irrepressible appreciation of the fun was shouted out, Clump did not realise at first that he was its cause, but when he did all the pride and alacrity died from his face in an instant.
The weapons--the shield in particular--reflected skill upon Clump or whatever carpenter had fashioned them.
To the succeeding lines the same authority had added in succession the names of Gray Wordsworth, Campbell, and so on throughout the poem.
